Friday, December 24, 2004
The Word happened as flesh
My Christmas musings, while sitting in contemplation.
My experience of God has become truly trinitarian, so that the trinity is not an obscure and difficult to understand doctrine, but a way of being. It is indeed the experience of Jesus that brings this to pass. For in Jesus the Word of God, the image of God, is incarnated in Mary by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit incarnates the image of God in each of us as we submit to it, as Mary submitted when she said "May it be to me according to your will", until we give birth to Christ. Mary is thus our mother, and is each of us. Indeed, Mary is the world, clothed with the sun, with the moon at her feet, and crowned with twelve stars: the Holy Spirit incarnates the image of God in all things until the whole world gives birth to Christ, the fulfillment of the promise of God. Then the world will be truly the image of God - not just human beings, but all things, so that 'the Word happened as flesh' is true for the whole world, all things brought together under one head who is Christ.
My experience of God has become truly trinitarian, so that the trinity is not an obscure and difficult to understand doctrine, but a way of being. It is indeed the experience of Jesus that brings this to pass. For in Jesus the Word of God, the image of God, is incarnated in Mary by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit incarnates the image of God in each of us as we submit to it, as Mary submitted when she said "May it be to me according to your will", until we give birth to Christ. Mary is thus our mother, and is each of us. Indeed, Mary is the world, clothed with the sun, with the moon at her feet, and crowned with twelve stars: the Holy Spirit incarnates the image of God in all things until the whole world gives birth to Christ, the fulfillment of the promise of God. Then the world will be truly the image of God - not just human beings, but all things, so that 'the Word happened as flesh' is true for the whole world, all things brought together under one head who is Christ.
